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  Arses of Persia
He was the youngest son of King Artaxerxes III of Persia[?] and was not expected to succeed to the throne of Persia.
A major concern for Persia during this King's short reign were hostilities on the western borders with Macedonia under Kings Philip II of Macedon and Alexander the Great.
This would lead to war between the two states during the reign of Arses' successor.He is known as Arses in greek sources and that seems to be his real name but texts in cuneiform writing[?] report that he had taken the royal name of Artaxerxes IV, following his father and grandfather.
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  Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Arses of Persia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
He was the youngest son of King Artaxerxes III of Persia[?] and was not expected to succeed to the throne of Persia.
A major concern for Persia during this King's short reign were hostilities on the western borders with Macedonia under Kings Philip II of Macedon and Alexander the Great.
A genealogy of Arses as Artaxerxes IV: http://www.american-pictures.com/genealogy/persons/per04959.htm#0
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 Persia
Persia proper is bounded on the north by Transcaucasia, the Caspian Sea, and Russian Turkestan; on the south by the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf; it is over one-fifth as large as the United States (excluding Alaska) and twice as large as Germany, having an area of about 642,000 square miles.
The second epoch of Catholic missionary work in Persia was begin in 1840 by the Lazarists, in consequence of the representations of Eugene Boré, a French savant and a fervent Catholic, who in 1838 was sent to Persia on a scientific mission by the French Academy and the Minister of Public Instruction.
On his arrival in Persia, Mgr Cluzel was immediately acknowledged by the shah, decorated with the insignia of the Lion and Sun, and officially confirmed, by a special imperial firman, as the representative of the Father of the Faithful.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Persia
Persia was lost to the empire, and some Bactrians, emboldened by the weakness and effeminacy of Antiochus, and led by the brothers, Arsaces and Tiridates, moved west into Seleucid territory, near Parthia.
Persia under Generals Outram and Havelock, it was terminated on 4 March 1857, by a treaty signed at Paris, favourable to the demands of the British.
Persia, resigned in 1845, and was succeeded, in 1848, by Joseph Audo, who died in 1878, and was succeeded by Elia Abbolionan, who died in 1894 and was succeeded by Ebedjesus Khayyat, after whose death at Bagdad, in 1899, the patriarchal dignity was conferred in 1900 upon the present incumbent, Joseph Emanuel.
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 Persian Empire, Persopolis - Crystalinks
Persia's earliest known kingdom was the proto-Elamite Empire, followed by the Medes; but it is the Achaemenid Empire that emerged under Cyrus the Great that is usually the earliest to be called "Persian." Successive states in Iran before 1935 are collectively called the Persian Empire by Western historians.
Meanwhile in Persia a usurper, the Magian Gaumata, arose in the spring of 522, who pretended to be the murdered Bardiya (Smerdis) and was acknowledged throughout Asia.
This probably was the reason why Xerxes in 484 BC abolished the Kingdom of Babel and took away the golden statue of Bel (Marduk, Merodach), the hands of which the legitimate king of Babel had to seize on the first day of each year, and killed the priest who tried to hinder him.
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Persia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Nasir ad-Din NASIR AD-DIN [Nasir ad-Din], 1831?-1896, shah of Persia (1848-96).
Ismail ISMAIL [Ismail], 1486-1524, shah of Persia (1502-24), founder of the Safavid dynasty.
Tahmasp TAHMASP [Tahmasp], 1514-76, shah of Persia (1524-76), son and successor of Ismail and the second of the Safavid dynasty.
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 Arses of Persia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He was the youngest son of King Artaxerxes III and Atossa and was not expected to succeed to the throne of Persia.
This would lead to war between the two states during the reign of Arses' successor.
He is known as Arses in Greek sources and that seems to be his real name but Old Persian texts report that he had taken the royal name of Artaxerxes IV, following his father and grandfather.
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 Dynasties 29 - 31 - Alexander The Great
Persia was free to move against Egypt and there was a three-year war between the two.
Arses - 360-343 BC Arses was the second ruler of the Thirty-first Dynasty and was the youngest son of Ochus.
After Ochus was murdered, Arses succeeded him and ruled until he was murdered in 336 BC by his commander Bagoas.
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 Persia
Persia and the Greeks : The Defence of the West C546-478 B.C. From Ancient Persia To Contemporary Iran: Seletcted Historical
Parthia, a small kingdom in northern Persia, broke away, brought Persia under its rule, and built an empire that extended from the Bolan Pass to the Euphrates River.
Throughout Persia the magi, or priests, continued to guard the holy fires of Ahura Mazda.
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 ARSES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
"ARSES" is a common misspelling or typo for: arcs, arsis.
He was the youngest son of King Artaxerxes III and was not expected to succeed to the throne of Persia.
He is known as Arses in greek sources and that seems to be his real name but texts in cuneiform writing report that he had taken the royal name of Artaxerxes IV, following his father and grandfather.
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 The War against Alexander the Great - The Guild   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Arses waited until the cloud turned into the dark tapestry that separated his niche from the central area of his tent.
Arses had a little time to grab the initiative, and that was he planned to do.
Arses kept a large part of his army in reserve, including his elephants and two groups of a hundred scythed chariots.
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 Arses
(?-336 BCE) King of Persia 338-336 BCE, belonging to the Achaemenid dynasty.
Arses was placed on the throne after the vizier and head eunuch Bagoas had murdered older members of the king's family.
Arses' reign was dominated by the destructive conflict with Macedonia, which under his successor, Darius 3, would lead to the demise of the Achaemenid dynasty.
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 Artaxerxes IV Arses - WCD (Wiki Classical Dictionary)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Arses was a son of the Persian king Artaxerxes III Ochus (358-338), and succeeded his father.
However this may be, it happened in September 338, and it is probable that Bagoas killed everyone to make sure that Arses, who is presented by Diodorus as some sort of a puppet king, became the new ruler of the Achaemenid empire.
The reign of Artaxerxes IV Arses was short but important, because the seeds were sown for the ultimate downfall of Persia.
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 Persia
Abbas II (1632-1667) Shah of Persia 1642-67, the son of Safi I and the great-grandson of Abbas I. He received various embassies from Europe and recaptured Kandahar 1648, which had been lost by his predecessor to the Mogul emperors.
Abbas III (1732-1736) Shah of Persia 1732-36, the son of Tahmasp II.
Intrigues and insurrections against Khosrau began to arise in Persia, and the Byzantine emperor Heraclius took advantage of this domestic weakness to defeat the Persian monarch in a campaign from 623 to 628.
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 Timeline Persia
519BC Darius of Persia authorized the Jews to rebuild the Temple at Jerusalem, in accordance with an earlier decree of Cyrus.
The Sassanid kings of Persia (who had superseded the Parthians in the Empire of Iran) secured the lion's share of the spoils, while the Romans only received a strip of country on the western border which gave them Erzeroum and Diyarbekir for their frontier fortresses.
1828 Russia conquered the Armenian provinces of Persia, and this brought within her frontier the Monastery of Etchmiadzin, in the Khanate of Erivan, which was the seat of the Katholikos of All the Armenians.
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 Persia - Qwika
Arses of Persia Artaxerxes IV Arses, King of Persia between 338 BC and 336 BC.
of 1588 to 1629 as Shah of Persia.
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 Untitled Document
Arses was a son of the Persian king Artaxerxes III Ochus (358-338), and the only one who survived the poisoning of the royal family by the powerful eunuch Bagoas.
This happened in the summer of 336, and it is probable that Bagoas killed everyone to make sure that Arses, who seems to have been some sort of a puppet king, became the new ruler of the Persian empire.
To add to these troubles, the king of Macedonia, Philip, prepared an attack on Persia's possessions in what is now Turkey: his trusted general Parmenion crossed the Hellespont in the spring of 336.
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 World-Ruling Empires and Bible Prophecy - at TheJournal.org
One of the first acts of the first Persian king, Cyrus, who was a "singularly noble and just monarch," in his first year, was to authorize the Return of the Jews to their own land.
Persia was the mountainous plateau east of the lower end of the Euphrates-Tigris Valley.
This was the fall of Persia, and the Rise of Greece.
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 Artaxerxes III of Persia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Artaxerxes III Ochus ruled Persia from 358 BC to 338 BC.
He was the son of Artaxerxes II and was succeeded by Arses of Persia (also known as Artaxerxes IV).
Soon after becoming the king, Artaxerxes killed all of his relatives to protect Persia from civil wars.
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 ipedia.com: Darius III of Persia Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Darius III or Codomannus, king of Persia from 336 BC to 330 BC.
After the ambitious vizier Bagoas murdered King Artaxerxes III of Persia in 338 BC, and his son King Arses in 336 BC, Bagoas sought to i...
After the ambitious vizier Bagoas murdered King Artaxerxes III of Persia in 338 BC, and his son King Arses in 336 BC, Bagoas sought to install a new monarch who would be easier to control.
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 Arses of Persia Information
He was the youngest son of King Artaxerxes III and Atossa and was not expected to succeed to the throne of Persia.
This would lead to war between the two states during the reign of Arses' successor.
He is known as Arses in Greek sources and that seems to be his real name but Old Persian texts report that he had taken the royal name of Artaxerxes IV, following his father and grandfather.
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 Persian Period II   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
For the 10 years that Persia controlled Egypt, religion was persecuted, sacred books were stolen, and Egyptians in general were treated very badly.
It is unclear whether Arses had control over Egypt, or a Nubian prince named Khabbash was in control of Egypt during Arses’ reign.
Whoever was in charge, Bagoas also removed Arses from power in 335, and Darius III became the ruler of Persia and Egypt.
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 Persepolis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The unfinished one is perhaps that of Arses of Persia, who reigned at the longest two years, or, if not his, then that of Darius III (Codomannus), who is one of those whose bodies are said to have been brought "to the Persians."
It was most remarkable that the impious act of Xerxes, king of the Persians, against the acropolis at Athens should have been repaid in kind after many years by one woman, a citizen of the land which had suffered it, and in sport.
In 316 BC Persepolis was still the capital of Persia as a province of the great Macedonian Empire (see Diod.
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 Alexander the Great and his Empire
In 337 he was chosen to lead a military campaign and expedition of Greeks against Persia and he crossed the Dardanelles into Asia Minor.
Alexander continuing his expedition into heartlands of Persia, captured the Persian capitals of Susa and Persepolis with all their wealth.
Soon after the fall of Persian cities, Darius the king of Persia was murdered by two of his men and was replaced by Alexander the Great as king of Persia.
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 Encyclopedia Search   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
I was king of Persia from 464 BC to 425 BC...II.
II, History of Persia or by his grandson Pharnaces Pharnaces...
IV Arses, King of Persia between 338 BC and 336 BC.
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 Persia - Qwika
Islamic conquest of Persia The Islamic conquest of Persia (637-651 CE) led to the end...
Imperial Bank of Persia The Imperial Bank of Persia was an Iranian bank it was established...
Babakan, and as Artaxerxes, was ruler of Persia (226-241) and the founder of the...
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 Persian Kings
Iran is a land of extraordinary diversity, geographically, climatically and ethnically.
To many Europeans the word Persia is evocative of beautiful works of art- carpets, tiles, fine ceramics, miniatures and metal-work.
Cyrus later was killed in 530 BC and his son Cambyses became the next ruler of Persia, followed soon after by a new man named Darius.
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 Ancient Egypt Survives Until the Present Day - Alternate History Discussion Board   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Persia absorbs all of Asia Minor, and assumes Lydia's overlordship of the Greek colonies o the Aegean coastline.
King Darius I of Persia gathers a large army to crush the revolt, which is clearly beyond the capability of the local satrap.
399 AD--King Yazdagird I of Sassanid Persia ascends the throne.
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 arses - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Darius III, called Codomannus (380?-330 bc), king of Persia (336-330 bc), great grandson of Darius II.
Narses (also sometimes written Nerses) (478-573) was with Belisarius, one of the great generals in the service of the Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I during the so-called Reconquest that took place...
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Sidon was destroyed and Egypt was reconquered Patriotic Greeks urged all who shared Greek culture to unite against Persia Athens concluded an alliance with Persia Philip of Macedonia interpreted this as an unfriendly gesture.
In 338 Philip defeated the Athenians Artaxerxes was poisoned by Bagoas who set Arses up as a puppet king but when Arses showed a mind of his own Bagoas poisoned him as well.
Arses was the youngest son of Artaxerxes Darius III the Persian 336-331 He was a cousin of Artaxerxes III Bagoas had chosen him as a puppet ruler Darius fearing the power and treachery of Bagoas had him poisoned Battle of Issus 333 Darius was defeated by Alexander the Great.
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